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...current number of Harvard Library Notes does not overstep the bounds of scholarship's conservatism when it calls the William Allen White gift of Shakespearean Quartos "the capstone on Harvard's collection of English literature ... comparable with the greatest gifts the Library has received in the past." The eighty-eight thin volumes, which would hardly fill a single shelf of the ordinary stacks, have been examined by the college librarians since the announcement in June of the edition. Their findings give point to their assay of the gift. Of the forty-four separate editions of Shakespeare which were published before...
Died. Robert Bruce Mantell, 74, famed classic and romantic actor (East Lynne, Fedora, many a Shakespearean role) ; husband of four successive actresses: Marie Sheldon (1881-93*), Charlotte Behrens (1894-98), Marie Booth Russell (1900-11), Genevieve Hamper (1912-); in Atlantic Highlands, N. J. Born in Scotland, educated in Ireland, trained in England, he was first acclaimed in the U. S. when he appeared with Helena Modjeska in Romeo and Juliet...
Fine touches like this lift the rest of the company into proper importance. Peggy Wood Plays Portia with a humor--in the Elizabethan sense--that erases the memory of wooden Shakespearean heroines. And she is not Junoesque. Bassanio's suit was somehow less plausible for the youth of his friend Antonio; the lines of both were carefully read. Shock-headed and slant-eyed Rummey Brent gave nonchalance to Launcelot Gobbo, and little more can be done with...
...believe that by casting 'The Taming of the Shrew' in modern dress, a fresh interest in Shakespeare can be given. This play is now in popular disfavor, although of course in the days of Ellen Terry the people thought it among the best of Shakespearean dramas. By putting an Italian gentleman, Petruccio, in a cowboy outfit and by introducing a modern touch to the lines, the audiences seem to become more appreciative of Shakespeare. 'The Taming of the Shrew' seemed to us particularly well adapted to modernizing. The original version, one of the most amusing farces of the Elizabethan stage...
Similar parallelism should be used in the staging of the plays. Shakespearean costuming in the hands of a musico-therapeutist could hardly be other than modern. The plays themselves are in no hands safer from mutilation than those of an osteopath. And the relative ideals of the two funds may be accurately projected by having the Stratford fund produce the plays that are beyond doubt Shakespearean while the Broadway Cathedral of the Bard rallies the flagging hearts of Baconians...